download of a playlist fails

[FDewaleyne]

here is the command used :

/usr/bin/youtube-dl -n -t "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpX1vZLGscg&list=RD02l2vuZR07NfM" --write-description -vvv
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-n', '-t', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpX1vZLGscg&list=RD02l2vuZR07NfM', '--write-description', '-vvv']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.04.03
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.8.5-201.fc18.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-18-Spherical_Cow
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] PL RD02l2vuZR07NfM: Downloading page #1
[youtube] PL RD02l2vuZR07NfM: Downloading page #2
ERROR: Got a malformed response from YouTube API
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('youtube-dl==2013.04.03', 'youtube-dl')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 499, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1239, in run_script
    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/youtube-dl", line 6, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 540, in main
    _real_main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 524, in _real_main
    retcode = fd.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 575, in download
    videos = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 96, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py", line 1777, in _real_extract
    self._downloader.report_error(u'Got a malformed response from YouTube API')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 273, in report_error
    self.trouble(error_message, tb)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl-2013.04.03-py2.7.egg/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py", line 240, in trouble
    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())

using the url without the list variable works for the single video however.

[phihag]

Thanks for reporting this, fixed. It will be in the next version we release.